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The First 20 Days of Literacy Coaching 

March 4, 2024

Join us for this two-day professional learning for literacy coaches to learn a variety of ways to organize and jump start your coaching in the fall.

Five Everyday Shifts Guaranteed to Improve Literacy Outcomes (One-Hour Webinar With Irene Fountas)

March 4, 2024

Learn five instructional shifts that you can easily integrate across the day to reach all learners.

Don’t Stop Making Sense: Orchestrating Word-Solving with Meaning (Webinar)

February 6, 2024

Start your Saturday morning with a 90-minute discussion of how you can support accurate, efficient, and independent reading by helping students use decoding and meaning to monitor their own reading.

Building Knowledge and Literacy Skills All Day Long

January 16, 2024

Learn how to identify and use the kinds of literacy that are required in science, math, and social studies to help children build deep content knowledge and vocabulary. Develop an understanding of how to reframe your instruction to integrate literacy into the content areas so children acquire disciplinary-specific skills.

Optimizing Your Time With Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ (Webinar)

January 16, 2024

During this 90-minute webinar, learn practical, time-saving ways to use Fountas & Pinnell Classroom ™ materials to integrate all of the essential elements of science-backed reading instruction (phonics, fluency, vocabulary, knowledge building and comprehension) in a way that works for you and your students!

Get Efficient with Fountas & Pinnell Interactive Read Aloud (Webinar)

December 19, 2023

During this 90-minute Saturday webinar you will learn effective and efficient ways to use the Fountas & Pinnell Classroom™ Interactive Read Alouds.

The Power of Fluency to Accelerate Learning

December 19, 2023

In this 2-day training, reading fluency will be defined and you will learn how to assess fluency and teach for automaticity and fluency during whole group, small group, and individual teaching opportunities.

Making Word Reading Easy Grades 3-8

December 13, 2023

In this 2-day training, learn how to teach phonics, spelling, and word study across your day that allow intermediate students to learn and apply foundational skills in reading and writing.

How to Make Independent Reading Work in Your Classroom (Webinar)

December 13, 2023

During this 90-minute webinar, gain insights into creating an environment that fosters a love for reading among your students and explore the opportunities independent reading provides readers in developing their literacy skills.

Not a Minute to Lose: Optimizing Coaching & Professional Learning Opportunities Across the Day 

December 7, 2023

In this 1-day training, learn about powerful coaching tools and protocols you can use to make the most of your time with teachers.

Upcoming Professional Development

March 18, 2026

Engaging Writing About Reading: Building Thinking, Independence, and Test-Ready Writers

How do we help students write stronger responses to text that supports deeper comprehension? This one-day session focuses on writing about reading as a thinking practice that supports comprehension, engagement, and builds students’ confidence with on-demand writing.

$295
March 25, 2026

Joyful Writing: Fostering Young Writers in PreK and K

This workshop guides early childhood teachers in building joyful writing communities through play, storytelling, book making, and drawing. Participants learn to view children’s early writing with fresh insight and plan purposeful lessons that build confidence, develop craft, and support foundational writing conventions.

$295 (Includes professional text)
March 11, 2026

Playful Pathways to Print: Learning about Language, Letters, Sounds and Words

Discover new ways to make learning about letters, sounds, and words joy-filled and meaningful for young children!

$295

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